#lt

Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#death #dying #enemy #find #i

Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#because #bitter #did #died #fact

I believe Johnson understood that the reason was Vietnam. I also believe that he felt that if there was a way to communicate the real issues in Vietnam, that the reasons would be answered or understood. But there was just no way to communicate. ↗

— Lew Wasserman

#answered #believe #communicate #felt #i

They have an understanding regime; they work hard and get results, they are a happy team. ↗

— David Gower

#happy #hard #regime #results #team

But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result in impassioned dedication on the part of its intellectuals, and even less on the part of foreign intellectuals. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#beginning #created #dedication #economic #emerged

For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors which begin to acquire sense and order through the process of writing. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#acquire #begin #country #cultural #earth

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost. ↗

— Billy Graham

#health #lost #nothing #something #wealth

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#desert #desert island #divides #evils #find

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#attempt #case #confidence #difficult #dismayed

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win. ↗

— Steffi Graf

#difficult #how #lose #makes #realize